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Can I just say how much I’ve been enjoying your movie star crushes? And with every comment I think, oh yeah, HIM TOO. How could I have forgotten Viggo as Aragorn, my god, or Orlando as Legolas? Mmmm, Man-Elfwich. Also, the bathtub scene in Out of Sight with George Clooney, Clive Owen in every-damn-thing, the FOX in Robin Hood (yes, yes, YES!).

I LOVE that one of you listed Philip Seymour Hoffman, by the way.

Let me cycle back to the tines-up/tines-down issue. I hear you saying that tines-up maximizes your chances of getting everything as clean as possible, but what about the hand-stabbing? Am I just clumsy, or what? Because I have had to wear a Band-aid two nights in a ROW as a result of being skewered by a upward-facing steak knife.

Also, unrelated to anything but because I’m halfway watching American Idol right now and Mariah Carey is warbling away: I have been compared to Mariah Carey more than once with regards to facial features. I don’t know how to say it without being kind of a dick but Mariah Carey? Not a pretty woman, in my opinion. Guess who else someone compared me to recently? Chloë Sevigny. Hmmmmmmm.

So my boy Dylan has grown right before my eyes since we’ve been here in Coos Bay. All of a sudden he can’t be crammed into his tiny newborn outfits, his size 1 Swaddlers are too tight, and he’s noticeably more aware and, I don’t know, sentient. He makes all these hilarious sounds: AWOO, AGOO, AWWW. He demands entertainment in the form of looming human faces or dangling toys and if left to his own devices he voices a loud complaint. I love the new, more interactive update (Baby V. 2.1.4!) but hoo boy, things are actually getting a bit harder, too, because he can’t be . . . um, stuffed in a corner and ignored anymore. Which is to say, OH SAY IT WITH ME: nobody puts Baby in a corner.

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87 Responses to “Jolie laide”

Amy on
April 17th, 2008 9:15 am

No on the Mariah thing…yes on forks up (but the pointy knives always go down) We’ve been without the dishwasher so long I’d forgotten about that great debate. Ours broke and replacing it will require either removing the countertops or the floor….maybe next year!

By the way…can I ship Cody and Zoey up to stay with Dog when we drive to Anaheim??? They only lick themselves once in awhile!

I always thought I was weird because I would totally do it (like animals) to the fox from Disney’s Robin Hood. Feels good to know I’m not alone. I watched that movie constantly when I was a little girl just to daydream of that fox of a fox!

I also enjoy Zach Braff in Garden State + just about everything else he does. I LOVE cute dorks.

I’m shocked no one has said Terrance Howard. OMG he is delicious. I especially liked him in Pride.

Also, Bruce Lee was a hottie.

I don’t discriminate; different races or CARTOONS, it don’t matter to me! Sexy is sexy in my book.

As for dishwasher dos + don’ts, how the silverware land is how they get washed in this house. We’re not supposed to dishwasher knives? That might explain why my stainless steel Ginsus started to rust after I ran them through the machine.

I once had a guy who was trying to get in my pants tell me that I looked like Joan Cusack; needless to say that the comparison did not help his already infinitesimal chances. Mostly I just get compared to the personalities of celebrities. Recently, I was told that I was just like Ellen Page in Juno, “if you would’ve gotten pregnant when we were in high school.” Heh, uh, thanks, I guess?

I am in the all silverware points down contingent, due to a childhood incident involving a steak knife and a cut underneath my pointer finger nail. Ouch. My sisters are still traumatized by the retelling of this story. And I agree with Operation Pink Herring — it makes sense that you don’t touch the parts of clean utensils that will eventually go into mouths, no?

telegirl on
April 17th, 2008 10:48 am

Forks/Spoons Up. Knives Down.

I can’t possibly see Phillip Seymore Hoffman as sexy after his “I just sharted” quote from Along Came Polly. Ew!

telegirl on
April 17th, 2008 10:50 am

…crap! “Seymour” I really shouldn’t talk to someone while I type.

Rebecca on
April 17th, 2008 11:01 am

TOTALLY the fox from Robin Hood. I don’t know to be glad I’m not alone in that….or scared.

I just wanted to say that I can “hear” how happy you are lately. I am so glad that your trip is going so well and that Dylan is coming out of the sweet but terrible newborn stage.
I hope JB gets back soon though, since the boy is growing so quickly.

Janet on
April 17th, 2008 12:15 pm

It was me who listed Philip Seymour Hoffman on my hottie list. I dunno, anyone who can say that they sharted themselves and still look cool is ok in my book. :)

JennyM on
April 17th, 2008 12:31 pm

Foxy Robin Hood — I totally get that one. Sure, he was a cartoon, but he was confident and devil-may-care and witty, yet also sensitive and compassionate and he had a sense of humor. So basically, he was the Cloon as played by an animated cartoon fox.

Philip Seymour Hoffman is a chameleon. Sometimes he’s HOT and sometimes he’s just a big lizard.

Denzel, however, is always happiness on toast.

I had a drunk on a bus once tell me I looked like Michelle Pfeiffer. I was grateful. I’ve also gotten Sela Ward (after I stopped being addicted to foiling) and Rene Russo. I don’t think I’d recognize Mariah Carey if she stood up in my soup, so I can’t comment there.

Oh, and this is really in response to yesterday’s post, but as the human owner of a recipient of the loving care given VDs (no, NOT diseases) at V’s puppy ponderosa, Dog is very, very lucky. And my Sophie is just a bit jealous.

Laura on
April 17th, 2008 1:36 pm

Okay, totally not the right post and not even about movie actors (I actually couldn’t think of any actors since it’s been about 50 years since I’ve actually seen a movie!), but Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and Chris Cornell (previously with Audioslave) are both on my “opt out” list for my marriage :)

Biscuit admitting that she like animals makes me feel soooo much better for admitting that I think Corbin Bleu (Disney ingenue)
And we have points up, but we have a compartment for knives, one for forks, one for spoons – totally anal I know – but if the knives are in the corner compartment, you can get them out of the basket without impaling yourself

ShannonJ on
April 17th, 2008 3:17 pm

Somebody just said the other day how much I reminded them of Gisele Bundchen…

…and then my alarm went off. Ba-dum-chhh!

Not too many comparisons here, but as a kid it was Pippi Longstocking. There was no Ariel for us red-headed kids back then. :)

The Chloe Sevigny reference made me laugh. Hopefully, you weren’t compared to her in Big Love. I love that show but she is homely.

My favorite boy crush is John Cusack!

Lesley on
April 17th, 2008 5:03 pm

Tines? I eat with my hands. Kidding. Ok, not when it’s potato chips.

Loved the photos of Dog. Hilarious that photo of her in the other dog’s chair. Who says dogs aren’t generous with their stuff?

Mariah Carey has had some plastic surgery. Her features look sliced and diced. Her body’s in pretty good shape though.

justmouse on
April 17th, 2008 6:04 pm

ok..didn’t realize we were naming cartoons too…yes, the fox in robin hood DEFINATELY, but also Goliath (remember that show Gargoyles???), Shrek, and the beast from Beauty and the beast. i’d totally do ALL of them.

Michelle on
April 17th, 2008 9:35 pm

I don’t comment often, but I have to add my .02 on the silverware: knives down, everything else up! Maximizes cleanliness AND safety!

ELC on
April 18th, 2008 5:42 am

Justmouse -Really? You’d “do” Shrek, a Gargoyle & the Beast? If you had any idea how bad they smelled in person you would rethink that decision :)

I also have an ongoing “discussion” about silverware direction in my house. It involves my very sharp “good knives” which until now I always washed carefully by hand and put sharp side up in the drying rack – to make sure their blades didn’t scrape each other & dull. Danger is my middle name.

Now that I’m usually toting a baby as I walk by there…well danger is NOT my baby’s middle name (I got vetoed). So I ordered a big magnetic strip to put on the wall under the cabinets to save my blades and Kellen’s eyes.

Everything except sharp objects goes tines up in our house – not for cleanliness, but because it seems to scratch the cutlery less, which is new and fancy… or at least it’s the first matched set we’ve gotten and it replaced the mismatched college stuff. Pointy things point down though.

Mnerva on
April 19th, 2008 2:02 pm

When she was in the news more frequently I was told often that I looked like Fergie. Yes, the Duchess. *sigh* Not too thrilled with that comparison, to say the least. The best comeback, however, to my distaste at the comparison goes to a used car salesman who was a Brit: “Well, she’s a lot prettier in person!” LOL

Can’t believe I am alone in my love of Kiefer (well ONE person mentioned him in “24”)!! As Ace Merill in Stand by Me or as Michael in Lost Boys? Anyone?

I’ve been told that I look like Celine Dion. I guess we are both ethnic looking white people but um, no thanks. Once I was walking out of an event and all the blinding, crazy paparazzi flash starts going off. I kind of thought maybe I was famous and didn’t know it, but no, Chloe Sevigny was walking in front of me. Much prettier in person, if (as someone said above) you can get past the outfits.

Jenny on
April 20th, 2008 1:23 pm

Just chiming in on the Mira Sorvino thing. (Only to the extent that you like her and are ok with the comparison. :)

victoria on
April 21st, 2008 9:54 am

I used to be told that I looked like Melanie Griffiths, but no one says that anymore, thank god. Were you back home over the weekend? The weather was crAAAzy, with sleet and thick snowstorms, interspered with brightness and sun.

erin on
April 21st, 2008 12:08 pm

Not having the time to read all the tines-up comments I’m gonna risk being the gross one, or the dumb one, or both. In a fully enclosed dishwasher where high pressured hot water and soap spew everywhere is there really such a thing as maximum cleaning potential dependent upon the situation of the tines?

My biggest movie crush is Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. Mmmmmmm! Will always love Patrick Dempsey in Can’t Buy Me Love and Michael Schoeffling in Sixteen Candles. Oldies but goodies. Yes to Viggo as Aragorn and also LOVE Brad Pitt in Troy!

sophielovespeanutbutter on
April 21st, 2008 6:29 pm

Several years ago someone told me that I looked like Hillary Clinton. Beat. That. :/

How fast are you loading that dishwasher anyway? Fast enough to jab a fork/knife/wooden spoon into your hand? I say slow down a bit. But best to put everything lethal side down, just to be safe.